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An amount by which a quantity is increased.

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For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger

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Offspring, progeny

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The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

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(of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.

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His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money.

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To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.

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To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

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To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

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The Moon increases.

That would increase the value of the house.

Having her there would certainly increase his enjoyment.

Howard had to pull out of the driveway slowly and gradually increase his speed.

This increase in utility is the same as generating wealth.

Vibrations increase in rapidity as a note rises and decrease as it falls.

That brings us back to the thousandfold increase in wealth, which the world will soon experience.

Andre had another idea, one that might increase the chances of success, based on ancient myths from the time-before-time.

Still, as welcome as his compassion was, it only served to increase her tears.

Dr. Bell gave her a down pillow, which she held against her to increase the vibrations.

If you do as I tell you, you will increase his chances of surviving the destiny Darkyn intends to inflict upon him.

Horse-breeding is on the increase.

In the modern era, what we have seen around the world is a general increase in social services and the welfare state over time.

Separating might increase the risks for some, but it would reduce the risk of everyone being captured.

The dust storm might work in their favor, but it would only increase their discomfort.

If an air-tight receptacle is not available, a small percentage of powdered carbon is added to the zinc-dust, to prevent increase in the amount of oxide, which, if present in excess, tends to make the deposit dull.

Later there was another increase.

Going from zero to one puppy might increase your utility a great amount.

Machines multiply our labor and increase our ability to do work.

Or, if you choose to go farther, it will not be unwise, for I have found the increase of fair bait to be very nearly as the squares of the distances.

The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.

Lowering the cost of something is an increase in efficiency and an increase in the wealth of the overall system.

On balance, this will be a hundredfold increase in productivity.

Some of the earliest balloon observations made the gradient increase with the height, but such a result is now regarded as abnormal.

The value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,081,019, an increase of 20.6% since 1900.

In the same address he called attention to the conditions of the world's food supply, urging that with the low yield at present realized per acre the supply of wheat would within a comparatively short time cease to be equal to the demand caused by increasing population, and that since nitrogenous manures are essential for an increase in the yield, the hope of averting starvation, as regards those races for whom wheat is a staple food, depended on the ability of the chemist to find an artificial method for fixing the nitrogen of the air.

The effect of this was to co-ordinate many branches of mathematics and greatly to increase the number of workers.

Every symmetric function denoted by partitions, not involving the figure unity (say a non-unitary symmetric function), which remains unchanged by any increase of n, is also a seminvariant, and we may take if we please another fundamental system, viz.

The fertility of the pasture-land in Romney Marsh to the south and east of Ashford caused the cattle trade to increase in the latter half of the 18th century, and led to the establishment of a stock market in 1784.

The United States, which ranked third with a production of 20,000 tons in 1850, maintained this annual yield, until 1870, when it began to increase; the United States now ranks as the chief producer; in 1900 the output was 253,000 tons, and in 1905, 3 1 9,744 tons.

In skimming the crust from the surface of the lead some unalloyed lead is also drawn off, and has to be separated by an additional operation (liquation), as, running lower in silver than the crust, it would otherwise reduce its silver content and increase the amount of lead to be cupelled.

Enmann, who interprets the name as "she who prevents increase" (in contrast to Leto, who made women prolific), considers the main point of the myth to be Niobe's loss of her children.

If the conductor consists of a coil of wire the ends of which are connected with a suitable galvanometer, the integral electromotive force due to a sudden increase or decrease of the induction through the coil displaces in the circuit a quantity of electricity Q=SBns R, where SB is the increment or decrement of induction per square centimetre, s is the area of the coil, n the number of turns of wire, and R the resistance of the circuit.

Baily showed that hysteresis ceased to increase when B was carried beyond 23,000.

Then the curve bends over, forming what is often called a " knee," and a third stage is entered upon, during which a considerable increase of magnetizing force has little further effect upon the magnetization.

The induction, however, continues to increase indefinitely, though very slowly.

Various nickel-steels all expanded under magnetization, the increase being generally considerable and proportional to the field; in the case of an alloy containing 29% of nickel the change was nearly 40 times greater than in soft iron.

They also investigated the ' magnetic behaviour of various nickelsteels under tension, and found that there was always increase of magnetization.

Magnetization produces inTension produces increase of crease of length in weak fields, magnetization in weak fields, decrease in strong fields.

Magnetization produces de- Tension produces decrease of crease of length in weak fields, magnetization in weak fields, increase in strong fields.

Magnetization produces inTension produces increase of crease of length in all fields.

In the iron cylinder and ovoid, which expanded when magnetized, compression caused a diminution of magnetization; in the nickel rod, which contracted when magnetized, pressure was attended by an increase of magnetization.

Frisbie, 5 who found that for the magnetizing forces used by Nagaoka and Honda pressure produced a small increase of magnetization, a result which appears to be in accord with theory.

In nickel-steels containing about 50 and 70% of nickel the maximum increase of the constants is as much as 7 or 8%.

Pop. (1901) 395,570, showing an increase of 17 per cent.

As the carbon content of the molecule increases, they become less soluble in water, and their smell becomes less marked with the increase in boiling point, the highest members of the series being odourless solids, which can only be distilled without decomposition invacuo.

Because light is accompanied by heat, he was the god of vegetation and increase; he sent prosperity to the good, and annihilated the bad; he was the god of armies and the champion of heroes; as the enemy of darkness and of all evil spirits, he protected souls, accompanying them on the way to paradise, and was thus a redeemer.

South of Bahia there is a gradual increase in the rainfall, that of Rio de Janeiro exceeding 43 in.

This analysis, if correct, indicates that the vegetative increase of the whites has been greater than that of the Africans and mixed races.

Although the protective tariffs thus imposed have resulted in a large increase in manufacturing industries, some of them have been antagonistic to the productive interests of the country, as in the case of weaving mills which use imported yarns.

The increase of population through immigration is overwhelmingly Catholic, and the nation must, therefore, continue Roman Catholic whether the church is subsidized by the state or not.